So there are more than four elents in this world, I thought as I flipped through the pages of the new book my mom had bought for . I had never been able to understand my family's financial situation, but I decided to not worry about it. I just hoped I wasn't putting any more pressure on them with these books.
According to the 'Basic Guide to Binding', there existed four other elents other than fire, water, earth, and wind. These four elents were categorized as 'advanced bind,' and being able to sense them and control them was an extrely rare occurrence. These four advanced binds consisted of:
Lightning, Holy, Ice, and Infernal.
I wasn't too sure what differentiated regular fire from infernal, but I guess I would just ask my tutor when she arrived. My father had sent nurous letters to the capital requesting a private teacher, but it seed like nobody believed him, and rightfully so. There was no way a four-year-old could control bind, at least that was the ntality of people in this world.
However, one person had seemingly accepted and was on her way here. She was called Starset.
My father had been teaching how to attribute a color to the bind around to reveal what elent attunent I had, but all I could see were white strings of energy, no matter how hard I tried. I didn't know if white was a certain elent or if it was just neutral, but I guess this was why I was getting a teacher.
A few days after receiving the confirmation letter from Starset, she finally arrived. I had never been great with people on Earth, completely centering myself on my own survival rather than helping others. I wanted to change that thought process of mine, but it was what kept alive for eighteen years in the underworld. It wasn't easy to discard.
"Hey," said Starset as the door flung open, Bruce standing there intimidatingly.
"Welco, Starset!" he exclaid, instantly dropping his aura. I peeked over at the figure in the doorway from behind my mother, who was sitting in the living room smiling at her son. Was she amused at how her son could sotis act normally?
"It's been a while, Jane," said Starset, walking straight past Bruce.
"It really has, Star, how have you been?" asked my Mom, both of them embracing in a tight hug.
Wait, these two were friends???
I could tell my Dad was as shocked as I was. He just stood at the doorway, jaw dropped.
"Jane, are you telling Starset only accepted our letter because she knew you?" asked Bruce.
"Maybe?" she responded, averting her gaze.
"Imagine how much ti I would've saved if I had known..." said my Dad, "I'm going to sleep."
Damn man, you've really got it rough, I thought as I watched my Dad trudge over to the room.
I looked up at the woman in front of . She had long black hair and powerful orange eyes. She was pretty skinny, and had a rather pale complexion, making her look like a sort of ghost. She had a small nose and gave off a rather awkward aura which I was all too familiar with, maybe she also preferred to go solo?
The woman t my gaze and kneeled, smiling.
"So you're Jay, I've heard a lot about you from your mother," she said softly, "do you want to start training right now?"
Wow, this woman gets straight to business. I rely nodded and she smiled at the gesture.
"Okay, Jay. I just want to see what you're capable of, okay?" she announced, and I smiled ever so slightly. She pulled out a beautiful silver knife from her belt and held it forward.
She's an assassin!
I charged at her, willing bind into my sword as I brought it down on her knife like I had done nurous tis against Bruce.
The shock of the impact sent a wave of bind around us, resembling sound waves that distorted reality when you looked through the shimring light. Star just stood there, her face monotone. All of a sudden, she smiled and laughed.
"Hahaha, you really are sothing else! I guess everything your father and mother said wasn't an exaggeration!"
"Star, did you think I was lying?!" shouted Jane from the doorway as she watched the spectacle unfold.
"Uh, n-no?" responded Star nervously, and we all broke out into hysteric laughter.
The next few weeks were spent training with Star, who I learned had tead up with my mother on many adventures. My mom was a holy user! I couldn't believe it! I had known my mom was sothing special, but I didn't expect her to be able to control advanced bind. Throughout our days together, I learned so many things about my parents; how they had t, how my dad had proposed in the middle of a domain, and so many more things.
"What about advanced bind?" I asked one day, and Star rely raised an eyebrow at the question.
"What do you want to know?"
"How do you control them?"
"It all depends on the color of the strings you see around you are. Of course, you can train with a basic elent and slowly start to understand advanced elents similar to it, but it usually takes years of dedication and hard work" explained Star.
"What about the difference between fire and infernal?" I asked, the question never being able to escape my consciousness.
"Hm, it's difficult. The real difference would have to be the possibilities. Both binds deal with fire, which is fairly obvious, but infernal can manipulate it to such a high degree that they can manipulate it however they want. It's hard to explain, but if you ever run into an infernal binder, you'll be able to notice the difference imdiately."
At least this woman could explain concepts better than Bruce, I thought.
However, even with a teacher, I was unable to produce a single elent of bind throughout these six weeks of training. I had learned how to manipulate neutral bind extrely well, being able to enhance my speed and increase my armor with invisible barriers, but nobody could understand the aning of white strings of energy.
Seems like I would have to figure that part out on my own.
Today was my day off from training, and I wanted to use that ti to go out into the forest and ditate to further enhance my bind control.
"Mom, I'm going to the woods," I said as I left the door, a small knife at my side.
"Okay, honey," she said, "Just don't go too far!"
After nurous hours of training with Star and my dad, my mom had finally authorized to enter the woods alone. I never entered far, rely going deep enough to have direct contact with nature all around .
JANE CADMIUM'S POV:
White bind... I had never heard of anything like that. Was it maybe a repercussion from such an early awakening?
Ever since Jay had told about it, it has constantly been on my mind. I an, I wanted to help my son as much as I could, but I didn't know if there was anything I could do. Anything anybody could do.
Jay was soone who was, for a lack of a better term, different. He seed to constantly be absorbed in his thoughts, but I could never guess what he was thinking about. It always seed like he was contemplating a life he had never had.
I wasn't a fan of letting him go out into the woods alone, and whenever I could, I would accompany him and just knit while he ditated. Sitting against a bark, it reminded of my days adventuring. Next ti he would go out, I'd join him and ditate with him! Maybe like that, I'd be able to understand him better.
All of a sudden, I heard a weird crash coming from outside.
"Did soone drop their weapon again..." I muttered, going outside the house to check. I opened the door and stopped in my tracks, gasping at the scene in front of .
A massive fire had spread across the dry trees of the woods, massive branches snapping and making sickening thuds as they hit the ground, shattering into millions of little shards of wood.
Bruce ran up behind and grabbed my shoulder.
"Jane, we need to go! People say there's an attack!" he scread, "Starset has already gone to help out the villagers evacuate!"
"But Jay..." I whispered, barely audible.
"What?!" he shouted above the turmoil of noise outside.
My eyes shook as the realization hit .
"Jay is still in the woods!" I shrieked, making Bruce look at the woods in a panic.
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